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Name a manmade product, and chances are good there is some intellectual property (IP) involved. And companies with patented goods are all looking for ways to protect their products from infringers. The printer consumables industry is no exception. While printers themselves are patented, so too are the consumables they use. Printer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)

On August 16, HP Inc. announced “a historic deal with Shutterfly,” the online photo-printing and photo-services giant. Shutterfly has named HP as its preferred digital press provider and will be adding “a second phase of HP Indigo 12000 Digital Presses.” HP’s relationship with Shutterfly stretches back to at least 2002 (see press release), when HP was

There is a new patent troll on the block with some printer- and fax-related patents in its portfolio that it is asserting against HP, OKI, and Panasonic. On August 3, a company called OpenPrint LLC filed three patent-infringement lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. One of the lawsuits names HP

In May of this year and again in July, Actionable Intelligence has seen reports stating that Black Point S.A. prevailed in a patent-infringement litigation brought against the company by HP. The news puzzled us because the last time we heard about HP’s lawsuit against the Polish remanufacturer, the OEM had reported it had won the

Meg Whitman is stepping down as HP Inc.’s chairman of the board, but she is staying on as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and took to Twitter this week to shoot down reports that she will become Uber’s next CEO. “Normally I do not comment on rumors, but the speculation about my future and

HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the companies that together once formed Hewlett-Packard Company, are already fighting one class action over claims that their workforce reduction programs unfairly targeted older workers (see “HP Faces Suits over Age and Sex Discrimination, ERISA Litigation”). Now the companies face another discrimination class action. A class action filed

Late last week, a hearing was held on HP’s motion to dismiss a consolidated class action that accused the OEM of violating various consumer protection acts and computer fraud and crime laws by using a printer firmware update to disable printing from aftermarket cartridges. Now the waiting game begins as Judge Edward J. Davila considers

Citing a report from Zeenews India, on July 17 The Recycler reported that HP Inc. has increased the prices of its MFPs and ink cartridges in India in response to the new goods and services tax (GST) that went into effect in the country on July 1. According to Zeenews, HP says it has increased

This week, Ninestar has been busy on the marketing front. On July 13, the company promoted its BlueDrive technology for Canon dongle gear toner cartridges. That follows Ninestar’s July 11 release of a white paper on the company’s history of innovation and how its strong research and development (R&D) resources plus recent acquisitions have helped

HP is undergoing an evolution as a printer manufacturer. It may still offer one of the broadest printer hardware portfolios in the industry, but as HP looks to spend less on declining segments and to spend more to grow in healthier segments where it has less market share, HP has been making some changes in